Compose – Send To drop-down

When in Compose message and filling out the Send To field I was sure there used to be a drop-down to help select the members name. I don’t get this anymore. Am I going mad? Was it ever there in the first place?

Just realised what it is. I’ve disabled ‘Friends’ in the Component Setup. I didn’t want everyone to have to request frienships just to be able to send mesages. It seems that the drop-down will only show members who are also friends. Not only that, even if you type the members name in the message will not be sent because you are not friends! Seems a little unreasonable since I’ve stated I don’t want friends activated. Can this be overridden?